Nortin M Hadler: 7 books
Nortin Hadler's 4-Volume Healthcare Omnibus E-Book
Includes Worried Sick, Stabbed in the Back, Rethinking Aging, and The Citizen Patient
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This four-volume Omnibus E-Book is a collection of Nortin Hadler's definitive works on the state of healthcare in America today. The set includes:
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America, Hadler's best-seller that shows consumers how to distinguish good medical advice...
Stabbed in the Back
Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Nortin M. Hadler knows backaches. For more than three decades as a physician and medical researcher, he has studied the experience of low back pain in people who are otherwise healthy. Hadler terms the low back pain that everyone suffers at one time or another "regional back pain." In this...
By the Bedside of the Patient
Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Physician
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
In By the Bedside of the Patient, Nortin Hadler places current efforts to reform medical education--from the undergraduate level through residency programs and on to continuing medical education--in historical context. In doing so, he traces the evolution of medical school curricula, residency and...
Rethinking Aging
Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life,"...
Promoting Worker Health
A New Approach to Employee Benefits in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
In this extended essay, Nortin M. Hadler and Stephen P. Carter introduce a new approach to reforming the American health-care system--a plan they call the Universal Workers' Compensation Model (UWCM). Drawing on Hadler's expertise as a physician and Carter's as an attorney, the two have conceived...
The Citizen Patient
Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent...
Worried Sick
A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick...